Street Slide. Useful tool could become more useful.

There's no need to go into the various ways that tools like Google's Street View can be used in planning. Oftentimes, especially in the private sector, you just don't have access to detailed photographs of street level  features (building facades, alley entrances, overhangs, alcoves, and the rest) shot by trained assets on the ground. But in many areas of the US, and increasingly in other parts of the world, you can get reasonable-quality imagery of those features and more with products like Street View and Bing's Streetside.

This video, featured the other day on Digital Urban, shows some interesting new interface ideas that could make these tools even more useful.